shyams, on 2023-December-20, 23:29, said:
Democracy means the will of the majority.
When you boast about how superdelegates are vital for your party's democracy, well I guess there is no point in pointing out how silly your point was.
Currently, Democratic superdelegates can only vote on 2nd ballots or later, ie no candidate has a majority of the pledged delegates. At that point, there has to be some kind of backroom deal made to get a majority of the votes, either from superdelegates or from pledged delegates switching votes, or both.
In any case, the allocation of delegates to states is definitely not "democratic". Delegates are allocated to states by the states popular vote in the previous 3 elections (ie blue states get more delegates than red states), by the states electoral votes (which has already been shown to be "undemocratic") and when the primary is held (WTF???).
Also, many states use a caucus instead of a primary election. Only a few hundred voters in the state who are able to show up at the caucus can determine an entire state's delegates. People who live a long distance away, are working or otherwise time restricted, or can't travel to the caucus site are disenfranchised. Also, some primaries are open to independents, and even members of a different party. Why should they be able to have a say in the Democratic party nominee for president?